
ROUTE LOCATION AND DESIGN
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McGraw-Hill, New York, 1964 copyright, Fifth Edition. Hard cover, 634 pages including Appendices, Explanation of the Tables, Tables, and Index. Good; brown boards with gold lettering on front and spine; some edge, corner and spine wear; binding sound with headbands. Prior owner’s name and date on FEP; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with white, bright pages. Faded water marks at mid fore-edge to mid bottom edges of some pages with a bit of rippling but has not affected readability of text. Black & white photos, line drawings, tables and charts. Formerly published under the title of ‘Route Surveys and Design’. ‘The so-called transportation systems considered here are primarily railroads, highways, air transport, pipelines, and water-ways. … The location and construction of these systems are governed by office plans based on field surveys, which may consist of actual ground surveys, aerial surveys, or a combination of these methods.’ (from Introduction)